Lima  - Eight miners died and 22 others went missing Monday in Peru when a mudslide fell on a miners' camp in the Andean Peruvian region of Puno.

The authorities said the mudslide caused by heavy rains happened on Monday morning and buried about 50 homes at a camp belonging to the mining company Huichimayo, some 1,300 kilometres southeast of Peruvian capital Lima, on the Bolivian border.

Huichimayo manager Carlos Roncal said eight men were found dead, while rescue teams were searching for a further 22 missing.

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Lima  - At least 32 people, among them two Italian tourists, were killed and about 100 injured in two traffic accidents in Peru, police said Tuesday.

Two buses and a truck collided on the road linking Arequipa, Puno and Cusco in southern Peru, about 1,100 kilometres south of the capital Lima, police said. Twenty people were killed, among them the two tourists, and about 60 people were injured in the crash.

In a second accident about 600 kilometres south of Lima on Monday, 12 people were killed and 39 injured when a bus plunged into a crevice.

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Lima (Peru), Dec 22 : An archaeological research has led to the discovery of 277 bronze artifacts at the Archaeological Park of Sacsayhuaman located on the outskirts of Cusco in Peru.

According to the news agency agencia peruana de noticias, the artifacts were found by skilled workers and professional staff of Peru's National Institute of Culture in Cusco
(INC).

179 plumbs (cylindrical cone-shaped weights) of different types and 98 nose rings were discovered inside the enclosure No. 06 of the archaeological site of Inkacarcel that, according to preliminary investigations, was a warehouse or "qolqa".